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January 2011

This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each day. Every Thursday, the program focuses on startups within the BizSpark program and what they're doing to ...

A note to our readers: Today we're rolling out some minor design changes here on Mashable. Among other things, we're simplifying our pages for faster page loads. But ultimately we hope you won't notice much of a difference in the way you interact wit...

Launch of News Corp's iPad-specific newspaper The Daily will not happen next week, as previously reported, and has instead been pushed back several weeks, All Things Digital reports. The launch was indeed planned for next week, but Apple needed some ...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We are keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today. Launch of The Daily Delayed Launch of New...

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While there's some question about whether Ted Williams' sudden fame has been good for him, it looks like it was at least good for Kraft in the short term. YouTube reports that a new Kraft Macaroni & Cheese commercial voiced by Williams got 901,000 vi...

Co-written by Christina Warren The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards are just around the proverbial corner, and to herald their arrival, the Recording Academy is busting out with an innovative social media campaign involving geolocation, mobile, web, social ...

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Music lovers rejoice (tentatively); according to recent reports, popular European music service Spotify could finally be coming to America. According to the New York Post, "two music-industry sources" report that Spotify is very close to signing a de...

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Nearly 10 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple's App Store worldwide, and Apple has put up a big counter to show it off. To say that Apple's App Store has been a huge success would be an understatement. At the end of September 2009, 2 billion...

Google asked users of Google Tasks to submit their most-wanted features a few months ago, and now the ballots are in. Google's announced a list of the top five requests, which would be welcome additions to the to-do list, currently accessible via the...

You can thank Reddit user Neonnoodle for the inspiration behind this clever animation, "The Scrollwheel," which first saw life as a comic strip. We've all been there: The plaintive phone call, whining about something like "I can't find my icons." It ...

Ahead of the launch of Rupert Murdoch's much-anticipated (and now delayed) iPad newspaper, many of us at Mashable have wondered exactly how the app-based publication will approach and utilize social media. A source familiar with The Daily's social me...

Since the Internet would amount to 97% cats and 3% "Celebrities in the Surf" if you got rid of all that pesky information, this week's YouTube roundup theme is: Cats (again). That's right, we've already had a kitty-themed collection of vids, but -- b...

As president of Geben Communication, Heather Whaling provides public relations and social media services to small- and mid-size businesses. She's also a public relations blogger, speaker and co-moderator of #pr20chat on Twitter. Quora -- the communit...

After some disappointing initial sales, magazine publishers are looking to offer their own digital storefront for tablet-based magazines, just as Apple is set to announce a subscription model for tablet and iPad-based magazines, according to two sepa...

It might look like a far-fetched timepiece from a sci-fi flick, but this design concept by Jonathan Frey uses E-Ink technology that's becoming commonplace today. Not only is E-Ink breaking sales records inside Amazon Kindles and other e-readers -- it...

Yes, texting and walking is downright rude (we've told you time and time again), but now we have proof that it's actually harmful. Well, at least to one's ego. Check out the above video, which has been making its way around the web today. In it, mall...

DailyBooth released a new, slightly more complex version of its popular photo sharing site on Friday. The update is the largest of its kind for the two-year-old face-focused startup. The latest version -- referred to as #dbv3 -- brings several design...

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein visited Groupon's Chicago headquarters to make a case for hiring his firm for a possible share sale this year, according to Bloomberg. The visit came just as Morgan Stanley is also in talks with Groupon to arrange an...

Rumors of an Android-fused Google music service have been building for more than six months; if a new leaked screenshot is to be believed, that rumor just might become reality with the next Android OS release. The website GizmoFusion has posted the d...

Two months after making their iTunes debut, The Beatles are setting some significant records in the digital music realm. iTunes representatives say more than 5 million tracks and more than 1 million albums by the Fab Four have been sold worldwide. As...

In the hallowed halls of video game greatness, there are works that stay with us -- your Halos, your Legends of Zelda, your Barbie Horse Adventures (what?). And then there are those games that, despite best efforts, don't quite hit the marketplace wi...

Apple has reportedly told several European newspapers that they will no longer be able to offer print subscribers free access to the iPad editions of their publications. The publishers told Dutch newspaper deVolkskrant (translated version) that Apple...

After a successful campaign last summer, Levi's is once again turning to Facebook to find the next online face and voice of Levi's womenswear, a.k.a "Levi's Girl." This time, the search has been extended to the UK as well as the U.S. Interested indiv...

Evernote's multi-platform note-taking service really took off in 2010, but 2011 is shaping up to be the startup's biggest year yet, especially given the big boost it just got after debuting in Apple's Mac App Store last week. Evernote CEO and founder...

Posterous co-founder Garry Tan has bid adieu to his startup and is heading to Y Combinator, where he will serve as designer-in-residence. The move is something of a shocker for several communities, especially considering Posterous's aggressive market...

This post is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark as a new part of the Spark of Genius series that focuses on a new and innovative startup each day. Every Thursday, the program focuses on startups within the BizSpark program and what they're doing to ...

More details are surfacing about the next generation of iPhone and iPad, including that both devices will feature Qualcomm chipsets and that the iPad 2 will have an SD card slot. The Verizon iPhone 4 utilizes a Qualcomm chipset instead of the Infereo...

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